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The Tucker Carlson Show

Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou on the Truth About Iran, False Flags, and What’s Really Happening in DC

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Politics

4.115.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Former CIA officer John Kiriakou on why Iran is far from the most dangerous threat this country faces.  (00:00) Where Did the Intel About Iran Really Come From? (03:58) Why Does Israel Hate Europe? (17:49) Should Russia Be an Enemy of America? (27:53) Why Would Trump Believe a Foreign Intel Agency Before His Own? (54:02) Why Did We Think Iraq Would See Americans as Liberators? (1:00:36) How Is Peace Achieved? Paid partnerships with: Ethos: Protect your family with life insurance from Ethos. Get up to $3 million in coverage in as little as 10 minutes at https://ethos.com/TUCKER StopBox USA: Get firearm security redesigned and save 10% off @StopBoxUSA with code TUCKER at https://stopboxusa.com/TUCKER Dose: Daily supplements for the systems that support you. Use code TUCKER for 35% at https://dosedaily.co/tucker  Good Ranchers: Use code TUCKER to get an additional $25 off your first order at https://go.goodranchers.com/tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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John, thanks for doing this. Thanks for the invitation. So a lot of us have been trying to figure out how

0:32.1

we got into this war with Iran. I think the reporting is clear at this point that there was really

0:37.2

nobody at the White

0:38.7

House or in the American intelligence community who was telling the president, yeah, this is

0:44.2

going to be really easy. But he came to that conclusion anyway. There's a lot of speculation as to

0:50.3

as to why. But tell us about the process. You're the president.

0:55.0

You're trying to figure out what's going to happen if you declare war on this country.

1:00.0

How do you find that information?

1:02.7

Where does that come from?

1:03.5

Well, I can tell you how President George H.W. Bush did it and how President George W. Bush did it.

1:09.3

It's a process.

1:10.8

Right. You have to... Formal.

1:12.4

Formal process. You have to commission estimates from the intelligence community.

1:18.7

You commission intelligence, finished intelligence reports from the CIA's Directorate of

1:24.8

Intelligence. You get an idea of what the State Department is thinking about it.

1:29.0

You're talking to your secretaries of state and defense, the National Security Advisor.

1:33.6

But then, and I think this is even as important, you need to talk to your friends and allies.

1:39.8

You need to know what the European countries are saying or seeing.

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